Jim Britton holds his son Stuart in this undated photo that his friend Ann Hanson says was taken in the 1970s. Britton, a former businessman in Iqaluit whose community-mindedness also led him to support the committee that established Iqaluit’s first community newspaper, Inukshuk, died in Calgary on June 19. (Photo courtesy of Ann Hanson)
Arctic Matters | Original owner of Northern Property REIT died June 19, at age 78
Jim Britton is known in the North as a modest giant of a man with a big but humble heart who had a huge impact in northern Canada.
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